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Europe After 1992: An End to Nationhood as Historically Defined? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ETHNIC NATIONALISM AND EUROPE |
| Author: Henry Paolucci |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1989 |
| Size: 11,504 Words, 70,644 Characters |
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"Europe 1992!" is the latest rallying-cry of the common market countries of Western Europe. In its suitably ambiguous brevity, the phrase can mean many things at once. Certainly it is forward looking. It points ahead to a Europe that is yet to come, still to be made, that those heeding the cry must help to make. Yet it is backward-looking, too, since it calls for change: from things as they are in the twelve market countries to things as they ought to be. And there is an unmistakable sense in the sound of it that the changes for which support is being rallied have been delayed too long.
What is to be changed? The year that "Europe 1992" specifies inevitable calls to mind the approaching quincentenary of Columbus first landing on an uncharted island in the Western Hemisphere. Whether ...
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...The first is that international order enforced through subordination to one center of authority is incompatible with freedom in any meaningful sense of the term. And the second civilized truth is that a balance of power can be maintained (when free and equal human beings organized as sovereign nation states are disposed to keep it), whether the weapons are sticks are stones or hydrogen bombs.
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